Re: Bug regarding Debian trixie (Ioannis Tsoulos)

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-09-08 21:44:15 +0200, M. Münch wrote:
> Dear Norbert,
> 
> putting the current file from CTAN into TEXMFLOCAL or TEXMFHOME - would that
> not result in TeX using those file even if a newer version has been included
> into the Debian installation? Ioannis wants to use the current version (not
> some private modification), there is apparently an older version used by
> Debian still, and whenever the Debian distribution does update that version,
> it is fine that the old version is overwritten.
> 
> Do I misunderstand something?

In any case, if there is a newer version of the Debian package in trixie
(typically fixing a security issue), the file in question will probably
remain the same, overriding the user's change if the user changed the
Debian file.

Isn't there a way to choose the highest version among those available
in the path?

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